Isaiah 23

1 Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water. 2 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow’s cause cometh not in to them. 3 Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies. 4 And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin. 5 And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city. 6 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice. 7 And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed. 8 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen. 9 When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water. 10 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it. 12 The word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem. 13 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. 14 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 15 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war. 16 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. 17 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children. 18 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures.